We may earn a commission from your purchases. Throughout literary history, love poems have connected lonely hearts, transcended cultural barriers and ultimately withstood the test of time.

A framed poster of a stamp depicting Langston Hughes, who wrote some of the best poems in American ... [+] history. Poetry provides the perfect way to indulge in the escapism of reading without ...

Apollinaire was rather liberal in his use and ... the fantasy that the unconscious is in any way being explored. Poetry has not been so lucky. Paul Éluard, Blaise Cendrars, and others attempted ...

Poetry, as Heidegger has written ... the cafés and office buildings of the Paris Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) celebrates in his two major works Alcools (1912) and Calligrammes (1918). Apollinaire ...

This anthology is the companion volume to The Appreciation of Modern French Poetry, the aim of which was to give detailed ... from the second half of the nineteenth century; Valéry, Apollinaire, ...

Prints and multiples, Original etching reworked in drypoint on Japanese paper. Secret Poems of Apollinaire: The Beach at Sete – La Plage at Sête, 1967. Original etching reworked in drypoint on ...

Sappho. Ezra Pound’s “Cathay.” Robert Frost and Apollinaire. And, of course, the collected Freud. What prompted you to write a poem about Nick Cave? I think that he is a marvelous artist and ...

Adam is Gboyega Odubanjo’s first full-length book of poetry. As far as I know, unless there is another completed manuscript waiting to be published, it will be his last until a collected poems ...

De Chirico’s great poetic promoter, Apollinaire, resolved a Parisian poem with the haunting phrase: “The night is a clock chiming. The days go by not I.” He was evoking—okay, mysteriously ...

“Is our boy full?” Ketevan asked. “Grandfather’s diet is very strict. No dessert, no bread. Meat to feed a bird. But our boy loves to eat. Let him enjoy himself.” An indispensable part ...

Joe Coelho looks at how poetry can be performed, bringing the words to life rather than keeping them on the printed page. He explores what tone and timbre can bring to poems when performing or ...